Do not take a blind guide.
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
Evil events from evil causes spring.
How can I study from below, that which is above?
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.